Abstract

On Harrison Hall's reading, Kierkegaard uses the terms translated ‘eternal happiness’ and ‘salvation’ to refer to a quality of this‐worldly life. As I understand him, the author denies that Kierkegaard believed in an afterlife. While acknowledging the vein of meanings that ‘Love and Death . . .’ point to, I argue that Kierkegaard did in fact look forward to an eternal life in the traditional, Biblical, and so‐called common sense of the term. In connection with his views on the question of salvation, Hall holds, and I take issue, that for Kierkegaard Christianity has a minimal objective content.

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